Wheaton Dachshund

Wheaton Dachshund

A Special Wirehaired Dachshund Color

What are Wheaton Dachshunds?

Wheaton is a color that should be specific to a Wirehaired Dachshund. Meaning that only a wirehair should be registered as, or referred to as Wheaton. But, that’s not always the case. Long ago there was a written rule in kennel clubs that prohibited mixing the coats. In other words, you couldn’t breed a wirehair to anything but a wirehair, or a longhair to anything but a longhair. In the history of Wirehaired Dachshunds, you learn that kennel clubs made exceptions to their rules and allowed Wirehaired Doxies to be bred with smooth coats. They needed to enrich their bloodlines, because of the scarcity of the wirehair at the time. It was hard to breed wires without breeding the same bloodlines to each other over and over. Of coarse, the American Dachshund Kennel Club allows breeding between the coats. But, at any rate, there are now smooth coat Wheaton Dachshunds in the mix. The smooth coat coming from breeding a wirehair to a smooth coat. Sharing the color with the smooth coat in their puppies. I believe most of these puppies are mistakenly called Cream.

Where are the Wheatons?

In my experience Wheaton is a bit of a tricky color to identify, which makes it really hard to find true Wheaton Dachshund Puppies. I see dogs registered as Wheaton being anywhere from a white to a strawberry blonde that we would usually call cream. In my opinion, the trick to identifying a wheaton is to look for the blend of color. Blonde, white and gold are the typical colors you’ll see blended to create a Wheaton Dachshund. It’s kinda like the salt and pepper effect. You’ll learn more about this on the next page about Wild Boar Dachshunds. The gene is SO similar. Yet, they look nothing alike. Leave it to the doxie to be so complex.

Buttons came to us registered as a Wheaton Dachshund. You can definitely see a lot of lighter gold coloring in her coat. More so in person.

Check out the similarity between a Wheaton Dachshund and Wheaten Scottish Terrier! (yes, dachshund people spell their Wheaton with an O and Scottish Terrier folks spell their Wheaten with an E)